Better Knee, Better Me™: effectiveness of two scalable health care interventions supporting self-management for knee osteoarthritis – protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Autor: Kim L. Bennell, Catherine Keating, Belinda J. Lawford, Alexander J. Kimp, Thorlene Egerton, Courtney Brown, Jessica Kasza, Libby Spiers, Joseph Proietto, Priya Sumithran, Jonathan G. Quicke, Rana S. Hinman, Better Knee, Better Me™ study team, Anthony Harris, Andrew M. Briggs, Carolyn Page, Peter F. Choong, Michelle M. Dowsey, Francis Keefe, Christine Rini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-19 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2474
DOI: 10.1186/s12891-020-3166-z
Popis: Abstract Background Although education, exercise, and weight loss are recommended for management of knee osteoarthritis, the additional benefits of incorporating weight loss strategies into exercise interventions have not been well investigated. The aim of this study is to compare, in a private health insurance setting, the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of a remotely-delivered, evidence- and theory-informed, behaviour change intervention targeting exercise and self-management (Exercise intervention), with the same intervention plus active weight management (Exercise plus weight management intervention), and with an information-only control group for people with knee osteoarthritis who are overweight or obese. Methods Three-arm, pragmatic parallel-design randomised controlled trial involving 415 people aged ≥45 and ≤ 80 years, with body mass index ≥28 kg/m2 and
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